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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Disable the Preview Pane in Windows Explorer

First,
left-click to open any Explorer folder. For this tutorial, I will make a
new folder, call it Any Explorer Folder and save it to my desktop.

In the
screenshot below, you will notice that the Preview pane is open on the
right side. Now go up to the top of the screen. Directly above the white
part of the screen is a bar (it’s teal in the screenshot).This bar has three things listed on it: Organize, Views, and Burn. We are only concerned with the Organize option.

See the little white triangle that points down directly to the right of Organize? Left-click on it.

After you left-click on it, a menu will drop down. Look down the menu until you see Layout
(it has a little black triangle that points to the right and is a
little over half way down the menu).

Hover your cursor over it, and
another small menu will pop up. It will look like the picture below:

Notice how the Preview Pane and the Navigation Pane
have light blue squares around each icon. Whenever the icons are like
that, they are enabled. In this menu, only my Details Pane is not
enabled.

Here we want to disable the Preview Pane,
so we left-click on it. It will no longer be surrounded with a blue
square. And my Preview Pane is gone, and now (if you have stuck with me
through this tutorial), yours is, too.

After you left-click on Preview Pane to disable it, this is what it looks like: